How come

PLL · 08-12-2015 06:50AM

This thread is gas, all the things mentioned have been found to psychologically increase sales. As another poster mentioned, things have to be reinvented to remain current. Otherwise 'Organisational Change' wouldn't be a thing. A thing I just wrote a 5000 word essay on.

LordSutch · 08-12-2015 08:21AM

mariaalice wrote: »

How come restaurants and cafe's have become eateries now, sounds daft.

Any other new speak that irritates you.

All biscuits being referred to as cookies.

Cookies is catching on big time here in the last few years, and I've noticed that biscuit manufactures are not helping matters either. Look at any biscuit section and you wil notice that the word cookie is replacing biscuit (on packets of biscuits)!

Same goes for crisps which are under threat from "potato chips".

Keep our biscuits & crisps I say.........

Lamps is another one creeping in to the language (instead of light bulbs)!
All this talk of people buying new lamps, and they're talking about bulbs!

Badly Drunk Boy · 08-12-2015 08:24AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Furniture isn't second-hand any more. It's "pre-loved".

That sounds like someone's been humping your couch so it does.

It's obviously 'pre-hated' too if they got rid of it.

Into The Blue · 08-12-2015 08:24AM

Two goals in football is called "a brace".. Fooking hate that term...

Also, ds, dh, dd on facebook has become fairly common if the facebook thread on here is anything to go by.

Badly Drunk Boy · 08-12-2015 08:28AM

dubscottie wrote: »

+1..

Dont get me started.. "craft" etc..

Hipster bollox that's getting into everything in life as marketing folks think we are all stupid breaded twats.

They need to look up "artisan" in the dictionary and realize that working in a Subway branch in California on your J1 does not make you a artisan sandwich maker..

I have been making my cheese toasties the same way for 30 years.. That makes me an Artisan toasties maker?

I had a conversation in work about this. When I mentioned that an artisan is supposed to be a skilled craft worker, one person was amazed, thinking that it was just a term used for food.

thee glitz · 08-12-2015 08:30AM

I hate when people start bangin on about product. Not a product, or products. But delivering product. I also hate the use of content (noun).

dodzy · 08-12-2015 08:34AM

Bespoke.

"Good afternoon, are you interested in purchasing a made-to-measure kitchen (which pretty much every kitchen has been since time began)?"

"Oh god no, I'm here to look at something bespoke"

GTFO you mad cow, it's the same thing.

suicide_circus · 08-12-2015 08:42AM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

its got to be pulled chicken, or pulled ham.

The day I see a menu and read "pulled plum" I will know this madness is coming to an end.

munster87 · 08-12-2015 08:45AM

Confused became gender-fluid

irish_goat · 08-12-2015 09:36AM

Grandeeod wrote: »

Panko crumbed Tiger Prawns. FFS Panko is Japanese and there is no way the Prawns are coming from Japan. If they are, they are hardly the freshest frozen. Whats wrong with fcukin Dublin Bay prawns in breadcrumbs???

Dublin Bay is the name of the prawn, not where they come from. Panko on the otherhand is a style of breadcrumb. It can come from anywhere.

Kev W · 08-12-2015 10:00AM

KungPao wrote: »

You know it's getting too much when places like McDonalds are using words like "artisan" and "pulled pork".

But pulled pork is a specific way of preparing pork. It's not like they renamed something that they already had.

Are you angry at how they pretentiously use the word "burger" for what is clearly a beef sandwich?

Blackwell · 08-12-2015 10:13AM

Weren't Subway offering an internship for a"sandwich artist" not too long ago?

Keyzer · 08-12-2015 11:52AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY5QonYAOuE

Robsweezie · 08-12-2015 02:30PM

Coleslaw is slaw, and lettuce is rocket.

Kev W · 08-12-2015 02:31PM

Robsweezie wrote: »

Coleslaw is slaw, and lettuce is rocket.

Nope.

Rocket is rocket. Lettuce is lettuce. They are different plants.

sebcity · 08-12-2015 02:33PM

Robsweezie wrote: »

Coleslaw is slaw, and lettuce is rocket.

Rocket is ****e.

Kev W · 08-12-2015 02:36PM

sebcity wrote: »

Rocket is ****e.

It's lovely on a pizza.

Baron Kurtz · 08-12-2015 02:54PM

We generally ape the UK and kill it.

http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/una-mullally-irish-restaurants-have-lost-the-plot-1.2378779

c_man · 08-12-2015 03:05PM

Just to add chips served in a mini-fryer (usually on a breadboard), wtf. We know they weren't cooked like that.

murpho999 · 08-12-2015 03:20PM

dodzy wrote: »

Bespoke.

"Good afternoon, are you interested in purchasing a made-to-measure kitchen (which pretty much every kitchen has been since time began)?"

"Oh god no, I'm here to look at something bespoke"

GTFO you mad cow, it's the same thing.

Eh no it's not.

A made to measure kitchen is a mass product cut to meet different size requirements. Just like with curtains.

Bespoke on the other hand is a one off product specifically designed for specific needs and will be unique.

Kev W · 08-12-2015 03:28PM

This thread should arguably be renamed to "Why are there new words I haven't heard before, I hate it, stop having new stuff."

But I suppose that's a tad lengthy.

murpho999 · 08-12-2015 03:30PM

So many people complaining about different food names without realising how much food has changed here for the better.

Go back to the eighties when food here was truly dire, and all you could get was meat with chips and/or potatoes and 2 veg.
Prawn cocktails were posh and coffee was just instant.

Things are so much better now that I will accept the rubbish that comes with it.

Stereomaniac · 08-12-2015 03:31PM

I hate the way things are referred to as "being a thing now" For example, oh my god there were so many people in town today with their sunglasses on indoors at the shopping centre, because apparently that's a thing now. I hate that phrase, it's a thing now.

Kev W · 08-12-2015 03:34PM

murpho999 wrote: »

So many people complaining about different food names without realising how much food has changed here for the better.

Go back to the eighties when food here was truly dire, and all you could get was meat with chips and/or potatoes and 2 veg.
Prawn cocktails were posh and coffee was just instant.

Things are so much better now that I will accept the rubbish that comes with it.

There was no such thing as "barbecue sauce" when I was a kid, now there's dozens of different kinds. This alone qualifies it as a golden age.

me_irl · 08-12-2015 03:35PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnGPgCVJUsI

How come

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